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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of James Waddell Savage.

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JAMES WADDELL SAVAGE

Staff Sergeant · U.S. Marine Corps

March 3, 1934 – September 20, 1967

Service record

James Waddell Savage, of Townsend, Virginia, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on September 20, 1967, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 26E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26E · Line 97

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Combat Engineer (1371)
Born
March 3, 1934
Home of record
Townsend, Virginia (Northampton County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 20, 1967
Age
33
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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15 names on the Wall carry the date September 20, 1967; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In September 1967, 929 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.